Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-05-24

animated appearance. The Alexandria
Light Infantry and the ST. Johns Cadets
are comfortably quartered and seem to be
having fine time. The former company
will be- inspected at $40 and will drill at
1890 a. m. Friday. The latter at 2:4O p. m.
Saturday.
The President to-day appointed Charles
Nj. Stafford to be U. S. Marshal for the
eastern district of New York Mr.. Stafford
is from Kings county, and is said to be an
offensive partisan.
The transfer Of the Danville internal rev.
enue district TO the Alexandria district of
Virginia, will not be made probably until
after the 18th proximo. From that date
Mr.. Helm, the collector Of the Danville dis.
trct, will be out of Office, and the places OF
all his subordinates be at the disposal of the
collector of the Alexandria district.
Mr. John Ridgley Carter, Of Baltimore,
and Miss Alice Morgan, daughter of the
late d. p. Morgan, of New York, were mar
ried at st. Johns church here to-day.
Among those present were Justice Field, OF
the u. s. Supreme Court, Mr.. w. w. Cor
coran, Mr.. Riggs, and others of the old Time
and select District society.
The resolution adopted by the Virginia
State Senate, requesting the President to
appoint Mr.. ]. X. Tucker associate justice
of the U. S. Supreme Court, and long Pc
tition to the same effect signed by members
of the House ofDelegates and by otner well
known Virginians have been LAID before the
President, but from the .latter's ideas on tne
subject of age and other lntlmatlons, tne
hopes of Mr.. fuckers friends are not at all
sanguine.
According TO present arrangements the
President will leave Washington Thursday
evening 10 a special car OF the Pennsylva-
MIA road and proceed direct to Satanac
Lake in the Adirondscks, making only the
necessary stops on the route. lie VIII De
accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland and Col.
and Mrs. Lamont, and expects to return to
Washington inside of two weeks.
Surgeon General Hamilton of the Marine
Hospital Service said to day that he has re
ceiyed official notice of the existance OF yell
low fever at Key West, but that the situa-
ton is not sufficiently grave to call for ac
ton on the part Of the government The
health authorities at Key West he said are
first class men and have taken every pre-
caution to prevent spread of the disease.
He thought the disease could be confined
within its present limit and that there was
as vet no cause for alarm.
A gentleman who accompanied Mr.. Kan
dali on his recent trip to the yard of the
Arrow Steamship company in Alexandria,
says the Pennsylvania congressman spoke
in the highest terms of what he saw there
and said Alexandria had every possible
facility for the construction OF ships.
Among the strangers in the city to-day
are several members Of the Virginia legis
lature, on their way home, their body having
adjourned
This morning Michael Frain, Of this city, a
messenger in the Treasury Department, fell over
the balustcrs on the fourth floor of that building
into one of the saud pits, distance of over sixty
feet and was killed instantly. He was attacked
with dizziness, aud in falling clutchcd at the bal
listers and overbaancing himself toppled over.
Deceased was about go years of age, and leaves a
wife and three children. He was soldier in the
late war and hal been messenger in the Light
house board fol many years.
Ex-reprcsentatvo Goodc, of Virginia Is to de-
liver two college addresses this summcr-one In
Virginia and one in North Carolins. Ex-r repre-
sentative Tucker is to deliver ono at Yale.